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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 96, No. 5, 2001, pp. 697-701
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Bioline Code: oc01110
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 96, No. 5, 2001, pp. 697-701
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A α-glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase is Present in Trypanosoma cruzi Glycosomes
JL Concepcion; H Acosta; W Quiñones & M Dubourdieu
Abstract
α-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (α-GPDH-EC.1.1.1.8) has been considered absent in Trypanosoma cruzi in contradiction with all other studied trypanosomatids. After observing that the sole malate dehydrogenase can not maintain the intraglycosomal redox balance, GPDH activity was looked for and found, although in very variable levels, in epimastigotes extracts. GPDH was shown to be exclusively located in the glycosome of T. cruzi by digitonin treatment and isopycnic centrifugation. Antibody against T. brucei GPDH showed that this enzyme seemed to be present in an essentially inactive form at the beginning of the epimastigotes growth. GPDH is apparently linked to a salicylhydroxmic-sensitive glycerophosphate reoxidizing system and plays an essential role in the glycosome redox balance.
Keywords
a-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, glycosome, Trypanosoma cruzi
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